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The Independent Democrats, who emerged kingmakers in the Cape Town metro and also holds the balance of power in various other municipalities in the Western Cape after Wednesday’s election, remains adamant it will not enter into coalitions with any other party.
Zimbabwe will amend its mining laws to allow the government to demand a 51% share in some foreign-owned mines, an official announced on Friday. ”The government wants to be an active participant in the mining business … In effect I am saying the principles to the Amendments of the Mines and Minerals Act have been presented and approved by Cabinet,” Mining Minister Amos Midzi told reporters in Harare.
Arsenal and England soccer player Ashley Cole is suing two tabloid newspapers which published articles allegedly linking him to a ”gay orgy”. Cole’s lawyer, Graham Shear, said Friday the suit accuses The Sun and News of the World of defamation, harassment and breach of privacy — even though the articles did not name the player.
Wallaby back Mat Rogers made a sparkling return to rugby as the New South Wales Waratahs climbed to fourth in the Super 14 with a 31-16 victory over South Africa’s Coastal Sharks in Sydney on Saturday. The Sydney franchise scored three tries to one and just missed out on a four-try bonus point in a free-flowing victory.
A bus trip from Harare to Bulawayo takes you through the drama of Zimbabwean fiction. Harare has some of the plate-glass sheen of a metropolis. Bulawayo is more laid back, with the wide avenues and porticoed walkways of a century ago. Zimbabwe’s books tell of transitions between old and new, village and city, seamed with family ties and ancestral resonance.
Johannesburg police on Saturday denied media reports that the wife of an alleged drug dealer who was regularly visited by late R&B singer Tsakani ”TK” Mhinga had been arrested. The Saturday Star reported that an alleged drug dealer who lived at a townhouse complex called La Michelle in Midrand was believed to have regularly supplied the singer with drugs and that she regularly visited the residence.
Bafana Bafana is being run by a bunch of amateurs and the national soccer team has been reduced to the level of comedians. These were some of the scathing sentiments delivered by Kaizer Chiefs supremo Kaizer Motaung in what amounts to a devastating indictment of Safa and its administrators on the Amakhosi website on Friday.
A South African record haul of 6 for 22 by Makhaya Ntini saw South Africa inflict its biggest victory over Australia in the second Standard Bank One-Day International at Newlands on Friday. South Africa now lead the five-match series 2-0. ”It was fantastic,” said South African captain Graeme Smith.
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The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) has called for a multi-party governance system in the Western Cape after Wednesday’s local government elections. The party’s leadership made the call on Friday after no single party won an absolute majority in Cape Town, paving the way for political parties to form coalitions.
Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin has been derided for his apparent denial of statements he made earlier this week that sabotage was behind the problems being experienced by the Koeberg nuclear power station. Democratic Alliance spokesperson Hendrik Schmidt said on Friday Erwin was deliberately misleading the people of Cape Town.